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Jack: A Life of C.S. Lewis
George Sayer was Head of English at Malvern College, UK until 1974, and as he points out, he knew Lewis (called 'Jack' by all his friends and family), for nearly three decades as a friend of the family, so he was uniquely placed to accurately biographise him. First published in 1977, and updated with new introduction in 1997, Sayer's account is a wart's-and-all account of a man who was 'usually cheerful and took a spontaneous, almost boyish, delight in ...